On the Wires, On the Needles

Wednesday night I finished my lace project and put it on the blocking wires. Getting a project like this wet is awesome and terrifying, awesome because the lace really opens up and becomes truly lovely, terrifying because I had no idea how big it might get. (I generally only do gauge swatches for sweaters).

Fortunately this “scarf on steroids” project, as I’ve come to call it, ended up wider, but not substantially longer than the pattern. Not to say it isn’t huge anyway – for a sense of scale, the orange strip on the ground is a yard stick.

This weekend I’ll pull it off the wires and do some wearing demo photos and then it’ll be packed up and shipped off to my mother in Northern California.

My long-neglected second sock not piquing my interest enough, I immediately cast on a new project (after swatching!) yesterday morning and I’ve already knit through a ball and a half. Lord love bulky yarn!!